Get some carvin’ tips from extremepumpkins.com. Today we will seize back this ritual. Today is the day we throw away those safe, cute carving tools. Today. We will buy a big, ugly, pumpkin so large one man cannot lift or move it. Today. We will carve that sumbitch into something ugly and plop it on the front porch. October 31st we will light it brightly enough to give visiting children suntans.

From February to August of 2003, I obsessively recorded the major US late night talk shows. This amounts to hundreds of hours of the David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Conan O’Brien programs. From this perspective, the collection can be seen not as a set of discrete jokes and bits and interviews, but as a generalized contour of structure and rhythm. From Jason Salavon’s The Late Night Triad. Also see his Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades.

A couple of MIT students have figured out a way to bypass copyright restrictions and share music with students on campus. Although the NYT article is less than clear on the logistics of the setup, an AP article explains how it works by having the music broadcasted over cable lines but controlled via the internet.

Sell them on ebay, that’s what. This belonged to my ex-wife who had about a 1000 of these Beanie Babies and when she moved, this one box of these got left behind, and now I am selling the goofy little things. Whatever money I make from them will be spent at the local Home Depot on tools and other cool stuff. I do not know which of these babies is retired or new, or whatever.

Amazon.com has added a cool new feature that allows you to search for words in books. And it’s a feature that has now been integrated into the search widget here at houze.net. It’s over there, on the right –that pulldown thing with all the search engines. Try it out.